170 OUPIISE FAMILY. 



-I- ■«- Leaves sprinkled icilh reni)ii)ns dots ; flowers Inrr/er, vith ohlong- 

 hcll-sliaped calyx ; berries larger, hlaek, aromulir and spici/, (/Inndular- 

 doUed. 



R. fl6ridum, L'Hcr. Wild Black C. Woods N. ; leaves slightly 

 heart-sliaped, sliarply 3-5-lobed and doubly serrate; racemes drooping, 

 downy, bearing many whitish flowers, with conspicuous bracts longer 

 than (li(! pedicels. 



/?. lugrum, Linn. Garden Black C. Cult, from Eu. ; much like 

 the precidiiig, but has greener and fewer flowers in the raceme, minute 

 bracts, and a shorter calyx. 



* * Floirers highhj cohired (red or i/ellow), murJi larger. 



R. sanguineum, Pursh. • TJicD-rLowicnED C. From Ore. and Cal. ; 

 glandular and somewhat clammy, with 3-5-lobed leaves whitish-downy 

 beneath, nodding racemes of ruse-red flowers, the calyx tube oblong- 

 bell-shaped, the berries glandular and insipid. 



R. GordoxiAnum is suppo.sed to be a -hybrid between tliis and the 

 next. 



R. ailreuni, Pursh. Goldex, Buffalo, Missouri or Craxdall Cur- 

 rant. From Mo. to Ore. ; abundantly cult, for its spicy-scented bright- 

 yellow flowers in early spring ; smooth, with rounded 3-lobed and 

 cut-toothed leaves (which are rolled up in the bud), sliort racemes with 

 leafy bracts, and tube of the yellow calyx very much longer than the 

 spreading lobes ; the berries blackish, usually insipid. 



XL. CRASSULACEiE, ORPINE FAMILY. 



Succulent plants, differing from the Saxifrage Family mainly 

 in the complete symmetry of the flowers, the sepals, petals, 

 stamens, and pistils equal in number, or the stamens of just 

 double the number ; the pistils all separate and forming as 

 many (mostly many-seeded) little pods, except in Penthorum, 

 where tliey are united together. (Lessons, p. 81, Pigs. 222- 

 225.) Penthorum, which is not succulent, is intermediate 

 between this family and the foregoing. Several are somewhat 

 monopetalous. 



§ I. Leaves not at all jlesltij, but thin and membra lua-cous ; the b ovaries united into 

 one » horned T>-celled pod ; no scales behind the ovaries. 



1. PENTHORUM. Sepals 5. Petals 5, small, or usually none. Stamens 10. Pod open- 



ing by the fallinjjr away of flip .5 beaks, many-seeded. Karely the parts are in si.xes or 

 sevens. 

 § '2. Leaves thickened and succulent; ovaries separate, a minute scale behind each. 

 * Petals separate; sepals nearly so or united at the base. 



2. SEMPERVIVUM. Sepals, narrow petals, and pistils 6-12 or even more, and stamens 



twice as many. Plants usually multiplying by leafy ull'sets, on which the leaves are 

 crowded in close tufts like rosettes. 



3. SEDUM. Sepals, narrow jjotals, and pistils 4 or .5; tlie stamens twice as many, the 



alternate ones commonly adhering to the base of each petal. 



4. CRAS8ULA. Sepals or lobes of the calyx, petal.';, stamens, and many-seeded pistils 5. 



Teiennial herbs or fleshy-shrubby plant;-, with llowers in cymes or dusters. 



